A Song that speaks to my heart - REFUGE

A Song that speaks to my heart - REFUGE by City Harvest Church Singapore

This is one song that the Holy Spirit ministered to my soul few years back when I was really down spiritually, I did not know then, but looking back, this was one song that really spoke my heart cry to the Lord then, perhaps it did pull me through one of the darker patch of my life. It was around the year 2008.

Life as a whole was good then, on the outside, from observers who looked into my life then, it was a bliss, I got a loving husband, a household of kids, a steady job, a great supporting families and friends who would drop everything to come to my aid and listened to my grievances and cries. I seemed to have it all, on the outside, but from the outside they could not see my heart turmoils, my pains, my doubts on God's faithfulness, my anger, my problems, my failures and my sins.

Early one morning as I was taking a walk at the Likas Lake, I did not even have earphone, I just played this song (as it was the only few songs I could download into that first generation of smart phone, my favourite Nokia E72), I up the volume and placed it near my ear. As I walked, in that quiet morning with very few people around, I listened to the lyrics and found that it penned down my sorrows, my cries, my feelings. I weeped softly as I continued to walk, hurriedly so that no one could catch up with me. It was a moment alone with God.

The song has been my favourite since that day, I often go back to listen to it when I needed time out alone with God. In the quietness and stillness, I could hear myself sobbing and weeping, singing this song to God to affirm who He is in my life. There is really no place to run from His Love, There is really nothing I cannot do without Him. He is my constant refuge and my guide !

Even when things seem to be back to the normal, I could still hear this song is for me, for my life.


Here is the song, Refuge

ref·u·gee

ˌrefyo͝oˈjē/

noun

1. a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

   "tens of thousands of refugees fled their homes"

   synonyms:

   émigré, fugitive, exile, displaced person, asylum seeker; boat people "collecting blankets for the refugees"

Like a Refuge, God knows me intimately well enough to know that I needed him as my Refuge at that point in my life.

REFUGE by City Harvest Church Singapore

I sing a love song to You Lord
Every day, every night
Tell of Your goodness and mercy
Tell the world how You rescued me
Picked me up, from sin and shame
Your breath gives me new life

Where can I go from Your presence
Under Your wings I take refuge
Your Spirit lives within my heart
I know, we'll never be apart

Everyday, I draw closer to You Lord
I long to see Your face
And hide in Your embrace
All my life, dwelling in Your holy place
My heart O Lord You've changed
I'll never be the same

I found the Chinese translated version (words translated) of REFUGE on You Tube, unfortunately the song is not sung in Chinese but the lyrics translated into Chinese :-

演唱：City Harvest Church
歌名：避難所 Refuge

我向祢唱首愛的歌
Wo Xiang Ni Chang Shou Ai De Ge
I sing a love song to You Lord

每一天 每一夜
Mei Yi Tian Mei Yi Ye
Every day, every night

宣揚祢恩典與憐憫
Xuan Yang Ni En Dian Yu Lian Min
Tell of Your goodness and mercy

讓世界知道祢拯救我
Rang Shi Jie Zhi Dao Ni Zheng Jiu Wo
Tell the world how You rescued me

擦去我羞愧過去
Ca Qu Wo Xiu Hui Guo Qu
Picked me up from sin and shame

賜給我新生命
Ci Gei Wo Xin Sheng Ming
Your breath gives me new life


主我永遠不離開祢
Zhu Wo Yong Yuan Bu Li Kai Ni
Where can I go from Your presence

唯有祢是我避難所
Wei You Ni Shi Wo Bi Nan Suo
Under Your wings I take refuge

祢的聖靈居住在我心
Ni De Sheng Ling Ji Zhu Zai Wo Xin
Your Spirit lives within my heart

一生要緊緊跟隨祢
Yi Sheng Yao Jin Jin Gen Sui Ni
I know, we'll never be apart

※每一天我要更多親近祢
Mei Yi Tian Wo Yao Geng Duo Qin Jin Ni
Every day I draw closer to You Lord

渴望能見祢面 依偎在祢懷裡
Ke Wang Neng Jian Ni Mian Yi Wei Zai Ni Huai Li
I long to see Your face
And hide in Your embrace


我一生永不離開祢同在
Wo Yi Sheng Yong Bu Li Kai Ni Tong Zai
All my life
dwelling in Your holy place

我心因祢改變
Wo Xin Yin Ni Gai Bian
My heart O Lord you've changed

我不再像從前(X2)
Wo Bu Zai Xiang Cong Qian
I'll never be the same (X2)

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但我要歌頌你的力量，早晨要高唱你的慈愛；
因為你作過我的高臺，在我急難的日子作過我的避難所。
詩篇59:16

But I will make songs of your power;
yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy
in the morning;
because you have been my strengthand
my high tower in the day of my trouble.
Psalms59:16


若有人在基督裡，他就是新造的人，
舊事已過，都變成新的了。
林後5:17


So if any man is in Christ,
he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end;
they have truly become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17

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